Strong G2990λανθάνω
be hidden
- Transliteration
- lanthanō
- Pronunciation
- lan-than'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
A prolonged form of a primary verb which is used only as an alternate in certain tenses; to lie hid (literally or figuratively); often used adverbially unwittingly: - be hid be ignorant of unawares.
Detailed definition
λανθάνω
[in LXX for עָלַם ni., etc.;]
to escape notice, be hidden (from): Mrk.7:24, Luk.8:47; with accusative of person(s), Act.26:26, 2Pe.3:5 3:8; as in common cl. idiom, before ptcp., ἔλαθον ξενίσαντες, entertained unawares, Heb.13:2 (cf. ἐκ-, ἐπι-λανθάνω).†
(AS)
[in LXX for עָלַם ni., etc.;]
to escape notice, be hidden (from): Mrk.7:24, Luk.8:47; with accusative of person(s), Act.26:26, 2Pe.3:5 3:8; as in common cl. idiom, before ptcp., ἔλαθον ξενίσαντες, entertained unawares, Heb.13:2 (cf. ἐκ-, ἐπι-λανθάνω).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2990 appears in 6 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- be3
- hid2
- hide1
- ignorant1
- unawares1
First verses
- Mark 7:24And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.
- Luke 8:47And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.
- Acts 26:26For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.
- Hebrews 13:2Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
- 2 Peter 3:5For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
- 2 Peter 3:8But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
λανθάνω,
[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 75.13, etc.)]:—also λήθω (which is the form of the active generally used in compounds, δια-λανθάνω being the sole exception), [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.323, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1325 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.48)]; Doric dialect λάθω [ᾱ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “El.” 222 (Lyric poetry))]; infinitive
A λᾱθέμεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.64)]: imperfect ἐλάνθανον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.721, etc.; ἔληθον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.151, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1359)]; Epic dialect λῆθον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.461)]; Ionic dialect λήθεσκεν [Refs (24.13)]: future λήσω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.102, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 98, etc.)]; Aeolic dialect infinitive λᾱσην [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 22.8)]; Doric dialect λᾱσῶ [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 14.9, +others, so (in late writers) λήσομαι, see below with 11)]: aorist 1 ἔλησα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 280 (but 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus has ἐπ-έλησα, 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus ἐξ-έλᾱσα, in causal sense))]: aorist 2 ἔλᾰθον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.676, etc. (for λέλᾰθον, see infr. B))]: perfect λέληθα [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 7.9, 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 13.27)]; Aeolic dialect participle λελᾱθων [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 26.8:)]pluperfect ἐλελήθειν, Attic dialect -ήθη, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.33, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 822, “Nu.” 380, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pr.Im.” 15)]; Ionic dialect3rd.pers. singular ἐλελήθεε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.79.)]
B causal ληθάνω, aorist 2 λέλᾰθον, see below [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus)]
C middle and passive, λανθάνομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1455a25 (assuming variant), λήθομαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.790, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 39)]; Doric dialect λάθομαι [ᾱ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.72)]: Epic dialect imperfect λανθανόμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.227)]: future λήσομαι [Refs (1.308)]; Doric dialect λᾱσεῦμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 4.39, also λελήσομαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 198:)]aorist 1 ἐλησάμην or λησάμην only in late Epic dialect, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Maiistas Epicus 47, 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 3.62)] (Doric dialect λᾱς-), [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 3.99, etc.)]; also ἐλήσθην, Doric dialect infinitive λασθῆμεν [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 2.46, compare διαλανθάνω:)]aorist 2 ἐλᾰθόμην, Epic dialect λαθ-, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.835, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 289)]: rare in Prose except in compounds, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Caesar” 38)]; also Epic dialect reduplicate λελάθοντο, etc., see below c: perfect λέλησμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 342, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 252a)]; Epic dialect λέλασμαι, participle λελασμένος, etc.; compare ἐπιλήθω.
A in most of the active tenses, escape notice (frequently joined with a negative):—Constr.:
A.1 with accusative person only, escape his notice, λάθε δ᾽ Ἕκτορα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.277; οὐδέ σε λήσει 23.326; οὐ λῆθε Διὸς πυκινὸν νόον 15.461, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.102, +others; [τοῦτον] οὐκ ἔστι λαθεῖν ὄμματα φωτός 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 796 (_anapaest meter_); οὐ λάθει μ᾽ ὀργά 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 222 (Lyric poetry), compare “Ph.” 207 (Lyric poetry); τουτί μ᾽ ἐλελήθειν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 380)]; εἰ λανθάνει σε perhaps you don't know, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Σαμία” 78: _impersonal_, λεληθέναι οὐ θαυμάζω τὸ πλῆθος περὶ τούτου)] it escaped the notice of the people, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 2.5)]; σὲ δὲ λέληθεν περὶ τοῦτο ὡς.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 903c.)]
A.2 most frequently with a participle added, in which case we usually translate the participle by a Verb, and express λανθάνω by an adverb, unawares, without being observed; either,
A.2.a with accusative person, ἄλλον τινὰ λήθω μαρνάμενος I am unseen by others while fighting, i.e. [Refs (1 fight)]unseen by them, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.273; πάντας ἐλάνθανε δάκρυα λείβων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.93, compare 12.17, 220, 19.88, +others, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.64, 6.36, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.25: frequently in Trag. and _Attic dialect_, μὴ λάθῃ με προσπεσών)] lest he come on unseen by me, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 46, compare 156 (Lyric poetry))]; ὅπως μὴ λήσουσιν αὐτοὺς αἱ νῆες.. ἀφορμηθεῖσαι should put to sea without their observing them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.10)]; or,
A.2.b without an accusative, φονέα ἐλάνθανε βόσκων he maintained the murderer unawares, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.44; λέληθας ἐχθρὸς ὤν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 415; δουλεύων λέληθας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 517; συνέβη δὲ ὑπερημέρῳ γενομένῳ λαθεῖν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.89)]: the reflexive pronoun may be supplied and is sometimes added, λέληθεν αὑτὸν τοῖς ξυνοῦσιν ὢν βαρύς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 103; ἕως σαυτὸν λάθοις διαρραγείς 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 32, compare “Nu.” 242, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.3.22: sometimes, however, a different object must be supplied from the context, βάλλοντες ἐλάνθανον (not ἑαυτούς, but Τρῶας) 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.721; ἐλάνθανε [πάντας] ἔχων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.5)]; μὴ διαφθαρεὶς λάθῃ [τινὰ ὁ βίος] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 506; μὴ λάθῃ [ἡμᾶς] φύγδα βάς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 256 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.133, etc.)] —In a few examples this _construction_ is reversed, and λαθών is put in the participle, as in our idiom, ἀπὸ τείχεος ἆλτο λαθών (for ἔλαθεν ἁλόμενος) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.390; ἣ.. λήθουσά μ᾽ ἐξέπινες 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 532.)]
A.3 rarely with accusative et infinitive, μή σε λαθέτω ὑπερτιθέμεν let it not escape thee to.., i.e. forget not to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.23; ἔλαθεν αὐτὸν σύνθημα δοῦναι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Aristides” 17)]; σφᾶς λέληθε Θεόδωρον εἶναι it has been unnoticed that it was.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 9.41.1.)]
A.4 followed by a relative clause, οὐδέ με λήθεις, ὅττι θεῶν τίς σ᾽ ἦγε thou escapest me not, it is not unknown to me, that some god led thee, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.563; οὐδέ ἑ λήθει, ὅππως.. 23.323)]; ἐδόκεες θεοὺς λήσειν οἷα ἐμηχανῶ thou thought'st to escape the gods' notice in.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.106; οὔκουν με.. οἷα πράττεις λανθάνει 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 465)]; οὐ λανθάνεις με, ὅτι.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.5.24, compare “Smp.” 3.6, 13)]; ὁ γείτων λ. τινὰ οὐ μόνον ὅτι πράττει, ἀλλ᾽ εἰ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 174b.)]
A.5 absolutely, escape notice or detection, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 455, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.37, 69, +others; λάθε βιώσας 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 551; λανθάνει τὸ οὖρον προσπῖπτον 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Κωακαὶ προγνώσιες” 464.)]
B causal, make one forget a thing, with genitive of things, in compounds ἐκληθάνω, ἐπι-λήθ; the simple Verb only in Epic dialect reduplicate aorist 2, ὄφρα.. λελάθῃ ὀδυνάων that.. he may cause him to forget his pains, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.60; πόλιν λελάθοιτε συντυχιᾶν “Lyrica Adespota” 140.9: but)]
B.II in late Epic dialect, λέλαθον, ={ἔλαθον}, escaped notice of, ἑὸν νόον, τοκῆας, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.226, 3.779, compare 5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Argonautica” 876.)]
C middle and passive, let a thing escape one, forget,
C.1 forget simply, in present (absolutely), σὺ δὲ λήθεαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.790: with _genitive_, Κίρκης μὲν ἐφημοσύνης.. λανθανόμην 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.227, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.72; οὔ ποτε λήσομαι αὐτῶν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.308; ἄλγος, οὗ ποτ᾽ οὐ λελήσεται 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 198)]: mostly in aorist 2, ἀλκῆς λαθέσθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 731; νόστου τε λαθέσθαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.97; πῶς ἂν.. Ὀδυσῆος.. λαθοίμη; 1.65)]: also in reduplicate aorist, οὐδὲ σέθεν.. θεοὶ μάκαρες λελάθοντο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.127; μή τίς μοι ἀπειλάων λελαθέσθω 16.200; οὐ δυνάμην λελαθέσθ᾽ Ἄτης 19.136 (but in 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 471 like the _active_, ὅπως λελάθοιτο τεκοῦσα)] that she might bear unknown): so in perfect, τῶν δὲ λέλασται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.834; ἐμεῖο λελασμένος 23.69; κείνου λελῆσθαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 342, etc.; ἑταίρων πάντων λέλησται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 252a)]: with a relative clause, λελασμένος ὅσσ᾽ ἐπεπόνθει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.92)]: future middle in passive sense, once in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, οὐδέ ποτε λησόμενον οἷον ἔφυ κακόν)] never will be forgotten, El.1249 (Lyric poetry); compare ἐπιλανθάνω.
C.2 forget purposely, pass over, ἢ λάθετ᾽ ἢ οὐκ ἐνόησεν either he chose to forget it.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.537; μαθοῦσιν αὐδῶ, κοὐ μαθοῦσι λήθομαι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 39.)]
C.II in later writers future middle is used like active, escape notice, ἡμᾶς [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Priora” 66a31, compare 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.737, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Sacr.” 14: _absolutely_, 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.52.)]
[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 75.13, etc.)]:—also λήθω (which is the form of the active generally used in compounds, δια-λανθάνω being the sole exception), [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.323, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1325 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.48)]; Doric dialect λάθω [ᾱ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “El.” 222 (Lyric poetry))]; infinitive
A λᾱθέμεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.64)]: imperfect ἐλάνθανον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.721, etc.; ἔληθον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.151, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1359)]; Epic dialect λῆθον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.461)]; Ionic dialect λήθεσκεν [Refs (24.13)]: future λήσω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.102, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 98, etc.)]; Aeolic dialect infinitive λᾱσην [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 22.8)]; Doric dialect λᾱσῶ [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 14.9, +others, so (in late writers) λήσομαι, see below with 11)]: aorist 1 ἔλησα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 280 (but 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus has ἐπ-έλησα, 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus ἐξ-έλᾱσα, in causal sense))]: aorist 2 ἔλᾰθον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.676, etc. (for λέλᾰθον, see infr. B))]: perfect λέληθα [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 7.9, 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 13.27)]; Aeolic dialect participle λελᾱθων [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 26.8:)]pluperfect ἐλελήθειν, Attic dialect -ήθη, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.33, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 822, “Nu.” 380, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pr.Im.” 15)]; Ionic dialect3rd.pers. singular ἐλελήθεε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.79.)]
B causal ληθάνω, aorist 2 λέλᾰθον, see below [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus)]
C middle and passive, λανθάνομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1455a25 (assuming variant), λήθομαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.790, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 39)]; Doric dialect λάθομαι [ᾱ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.72)]: Epic dialect imperfect λανθανόμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.227)]: future λήσομαι [Refs (1.308)]; Doric dialect λᾱσεῦμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 4.39, also λελήσομαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 198:)]aorist 1 ἐλησάμην or λησάμην only in late Epic dialect, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Maiistas Epicus 47, 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 3.62)] (Doric dialect λᾱς-), [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 3.99, etc.)]; also ἐλήσθην, Doric dialect infinitive λασθῆμεν [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 2.46, compare διαλανθάνω:)]aorist 2 ἐλᾰθόμην, Epic dialect λαθ-, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.835, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 289)]: rare in Prose except in compounds, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Caesar” 38)]; also Epic dialect reduplicate λελάθοντο, etc., see below c: perfect λέλησμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 342, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 252a)]; Epic dialect λέλασμαι, participle λελασμένος, etc.; compare ἐπιλήθω.
A in most of the active tenses, escape notice (frequently joined with a negative):—Constr.:
A.1 with accusative person only, escape his notice, λάθε δ᾽ Ἕκτορα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.277; οὐδέ σε λήσει 23.326; οὐ λῆθε Διὸς πυκινὸν νόον 15.461, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.102, +others; [τοῦτον] οὐκ ἔστι λαθεῖν ὄμματα φωτός 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 796 (_anapaest meter_); οὐ λάθει μ᾽ ὀργά 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 222 (Lyric poetry), compare “Ph.” 207 (Lyric poetry); τουτί μ᾽ ἐλελήθειν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 380)]; εἰ λανθάνει σε perhaps you don't know, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Σαμία” 78: _impersonal_, λεληθέναι οὐ θαυμάζω τὸ πλῆθος περὶ τούτου)] it escaped the notice of the people, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 2.5)]; σὲ δὲ λέληθεν περὶ τοῦτο ὡς.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 903c.)]
A.2 most frequently with a participle added, in which case we usually translate the participle by a Verb, and express λανθάνω by an adverb, unawares, without being observed; either,
A.2.a with accusative person, ἄλλον τινὰ λήθω μαρνάμενος I am unseen by others while fighting, i.e. [Refs (1 fight)]unseen by them, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.273; πάντας ἐλάνθανε δάκρυα λείβων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.93, compare 12.17, 220, 19.88, +others, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.64, 6.36, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.25: frequently in Trag. and _Attic dialect_, μὴ λάθῃ με προσπεσών)] lest he come on unseen by me, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 46, compare 156 (Lyric poetry))]; ὅπως μὴ λήσουσιν αὐτοὺς αἱ νῆες.. ἀφορμηθεῖσαι should put to sea without their observing them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.10)]; or,
A.2.b without an accusative, φονέα ἐλάνθανε βόσκων he maintained the murderer unawares, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.44; λέληθας ἐχθρὸς ὤν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 415; δουλεύων λέληθας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 517; συνέβη δὲ ὑπερημέρῳ γενομένῳ λαθεῖν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.89)]: the reflexive pronoun may be supplied and is sometimes added, λέληθεν αὑτὸν τοῖς ξυνοῦσιν ὢν βαρύς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 103; ἕως σαυτὸν λάθοις διαρραγείς 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 32, compare “Nu.” 242, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.3.22: sometimes, however, a different object must be supplied from the context, βάλλοντες ἐλάνθανον (not ἑαυτούς, but Τρῶας) 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.721; ἐλάνθανε [πάντας] ἔχων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.5)]; μὴ διαφθαρεὶς λάθῃ [τινὰ ὁ βίος] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 506; μὴ λάθῃ [ἡμᾶς] φύγδα βάς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 256 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.133, etc.)] —In a few examples this _construction_ is reversed, and λαθών is put in the participle, as in our idiom, ἀπὸ τείχεος ἆλτο λαθών (for ἔλαθεν ἁλόμενος) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.390; ἣ.. λήθουσά μ᾽ ἐξέπινες 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 532.)]
A.3 rarely with accusative et infinitive, μή σε λαθέτω ὑπερτιθέμεν let it not escape thee to.., i.e. forget not to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.23; ἔλαθεν αὐτὸν σύνθημα δοῦναι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Aristides” 17)]; σφᾶς λέληθε Θεόδωρον εἶναι it has been unnoticed that it was.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 9.41.1.)]
A.4 followed by a relative clause, οὐδέ με λήθεις, ὅττι θεῶν τίς σ᾽ ἦγε thou escapest me not, it is not unknown to me, that some god led thee, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.563; οὐδέ ἑ λήθει, ὅππως.. 23.323)]; ἐδόκεες θεοὺς λήσειν οἷα ἐμηχανῶ thou thought'st to escape the gods' notice in.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.106; οὔκουν με.. οἷα πράττεις λανθάνει 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 465)]; οὐ λανθάνεις με, ὅτι.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.5.24, compare “Smp.” 3.6, 13)]; ὁ γείτων λ. τινὰ οὐ μόνον ὅτι πράττει, ἀλλ᾽ εἰ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 174b.)]
A.5 absolutely, escape notice or detection, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 455, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.37, 69, +others; λάθε βιώσας 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 551; λανθάνει τὸ οὖρον προσπῖπτον 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Κωακαὶ προγνώσιες” 464.)]
B causal, make one forget a thing, with genitive of things, in compounds ἐκληθάνω, ἐπι-λήθ; the simple Verb only in Epic dialect reduplicate aorist 2, ὄφρα.. λελάθῃ ὀδυνάων that.. he may cause him to forget his pains, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.60; πόλιν λελάθοιτε συντυχιᾶν “Lyrica Adespota” 140.9: but)]
B.II in late Epic dialect, λέλαθον, ={ἔλαθον}, escaped notice of, ἑὸν νόον, τοκῆας, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.226, 3.779, compare 5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Argonautica” 876.)]
C middle and passive, let a thing escape one, forget,
C.1 forget simply, in present (absolutely), σὺ δὲ λήθεαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.790: with _genitive_, Κίρκης μὲν ἐφημοσύνης.. λανθανόμην 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.227, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.72; οὔ ποτε λήσομαι αὐτῶν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.308; ἄλγος, οὗ ποτ᾽ οὐ λελήσεται 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 198)]: mostly in aorist 2, ἀλκῆς λαθέσθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 731; νόστου τε λαθέσθαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.97; πῶς ἂν.. Ὀδυσῆος.. λαθοίμη; 1.65)]: also in reduplicate aorist, οὐδὲ σέθεν.. θεοὶ μάκαρες λελάθοντο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.127; μή τίς μοι ἀπειλάων λελαθέσθω 16.200; οὐ δυνάμην λελαθέσθ᾽ Ἄτης 19.136 (but in 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 471 like the _active_, ὅπως λελάθοιτο τεκοῦσα)] that she might bear unknown): so in perfect, τῶν δὲ λέλασται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.834; ἐμεῖο λελασμένος 23.69; κείνου λελῆσθαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 342, etc.; ἑταίρων πάντων λέλησται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 252a)]: with a relative clause, λελασμένος ὅσσ᾽ ἐπεπόνθει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.92)]: future middle in passive sense, once in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, οὐδέ ποτε λησόμενον οἷον ἔφυ κακόν)] never will be forgotten, El.1249 (Lyric poetry); compare ἐπιλανθάνω.
C.2 forget purposely, pass over, ἢ λάθετ᾽ ἢ οὐκ ἐνόησεν either he chose to forget it.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.537; μαθοῦσιν αὐδῶ, κοὐ μαθοῦσι λήθομαι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 39.)]
C.II in later writers future middle is used like active, escape notice, ἡμᾶς [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Priora” 66a31, compare 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.737, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Sacr.” 14: _absolutely_, 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.52.)]